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Creatures will despawn after a considerable amount of time of no physical activity in their location. Not only is this intentional to prevent archers from farming areas that far exceed their skill level, but it is also intentional to keep the level of active creatures in the gameworld to a minimum. If you are having these issues, I would recommend you find a partner to accompany you on your adventures or actually expose yourself to danger. An archer with 1,000 combat ranks should not be killing more creatures (with minimal risk) at the hardest hunting ground in the game than those with considerably more combat ranks. These high-level hunting grounds were intedend for group combat, so please keep that in mind.

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A couple of things that will help you and us resolved issues with bugged items:

When reporting a bugged item that one of your characters has, please place that item in the character's bank account and leave it there until you have a reply to your report. If depositing the item in the bank is not an option, BE SURE TO KEEP THE ITEM ON THE CHARACTER until you get a reply to your report.

If a shop is selling bugged items, please send your report in from the location of the shop in question.

If you do NOT do these things when reporting, it makes it VERY difficult for us to track down the items in question and greatly delays any chance of having them fixed.

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Due to technical difficulties, today's scheduled downtime has been moved to tomorrow (Thursday) at about noon (PT) - right after the backup. A reminder - this will be for about an hour (or less).

Game Master TaleKnowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is actually a smoothie. Common Sense is knowing that no, ketchup is not a smoothie.

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On Wednesday (March 23), the game will be taken down from approximately 4 until 6:30 pm EST while the server is upgraded. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconveniences this may cause.

Game Master Sceadu

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We created the KUDOS system to allow you to reward fellow players you felt had a positive impact on your playing experience. It has been brought to our attention that some players are using the system in a way it was never intended to be used; taking petty jabs and throwing insults at other players. Therefore, from this moment forward, the policy will be if you are reported for doing such a thing and we can verify it, you will lose your ability to participate in the KUDOS system at all. This means you will not only no longer be able to give kudos, you will also no longer be able to receive them.

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After consideration and discussion among the staff, we will soon be releasing four more Veteran Character packages above the current highest package of level 6. We will not be able to retroactively award these higher level packages for prior PC deaths. We are trying to move forward and offer our players more options in the future.

Game Master Sceadu

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After consideration and discussion among the staff, we will soon be releasing four more Veteran Character packages above the current highest package of level 6. We will not be able to retroactively award these higher level packages for prior PC deaths. We are trying to move forward and offer our players more options in the future.

Friends, Countrymen, lend me your Role Points, for the now-available extended character packages:

* The package offered will be based off character age. (from the time of creation until the time of death).
* One month will be added to this age for every 250 Role Points spent on the character. (RPs counted are those directly spent on the character itself [description changes, stat increases, etc], not any spent on items, events or other.)
* The total number of months credited will be rounded to the nearest year.

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With the new Veteran Character Packages, and the increase in available Veteran Character Credits, we've increased the number of options for things you can buy with them!

You can now spend your Veteran Character Credits (VCCs) on additional Attribute Increase Points!
Take one step west from the attribute store and use 'buy' to purchase them at 25 VCCs each.

Those of you who choose to roll a foreigner can now spend your VCCs on Iridinian Citizenship!
At the low cost of 20 VCCs, you will be granted Citizenship in the greatest country of all of Midlight, with official paperwork filed to the Records Office automatically!
One step upwards and one step south from the main Veteran Character Lobby will take you to the Citizenship Store!

You can now also spend your VCCs on additional skill slots!
Rolled Abysmal reasoning but want to use Combat Maneuvers AND a weapon?
Skill slots 1-5 cost 5 VCCs each.
Skill slots 6 - 10 cost 10 VCCs each.
Each skill slot past 10 costs its number in VCCs (11, 12, 13, etc).
One step west of the Citizenship store, and you can buy as many skill slots as you need, provided you've got enough VCCs.

Those skill slots won't do you much good without skills to fill them with!
You can buy Skill Points for any already-known skills with your VCCs!
For each VCC spent, you will receive 15 Skill Points in the skill of your choosing!
Note that you can only inject these skill points into already-known skills, so make sure you've used up your GSP before spending VCCs here!
One spot up and one spot north of the main Veteran Character Lobby, you'll find the Veteran Character Skill SP Store!

Finally, (for today), there's always... Cold. Hard. Cash.
If you find yourself short a few denars, or holding onto some spare VCCs while you've already got your faceplate and superior weapon ready...
You can purchase direct deposits to your new character's Seneda's Bank Account, at the rate of 2.5t (two talents, seven hundred eighty-one denars, and one sterce) per VCC spent.
Just take one step east of the Veteran Character Skill SP Store to get some of those denar denar coins, y'all.

Note: This is not the full extent of the additional purchases under consideration. We will be evaluating future potential purchases after this month's event on the island has taken place! Keep your eyes out!

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One pace north of the Veteran Character Skill SP Store, we now have the Veteran Character Language Store! Purchase fluency in the character-generator-available language of your choice!

50 Ranks in any of the available languages will cost 15 VCCs. You will not be able to purchase languages your character already knows, or those languages which require in-game or story investment to acquire.

As with the other new VCC stores, you can use 'buy' at the location for more information!

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While we're enjoying the uptick in player activity, I feel it's time to remind everyone of the proper use of ways to contact the staff as the use of PROCLAIM is becoming overwhelming at times.

If there is currently something affecting your game play you may PROCLAIM the word "emergency" or ring the bell west of the main Welcome Area room and if a staff member is available they will contact you. Please limit these types of contact for EMERGENCY purposes only as this option will pull GMs away from what they are currently working on to answer. If a player abuses this option for non-emergency purposes their ability to use it may be restricted.

If there you find a bug within the game, please @REPORT (from the location of said bug, if applicable) with as much detail as possible and it will be looked into.

If you are requesting a RP expenditure that requires GM intervention or have a question that requires a back and forth interaction, please send in an @REQUEST. Although we try to reply to @REQUEST as soon as possible, please remember that by policy on turn-around time for RP expenditure request is 30 days.

If you wish to give general thoughts or feedback that does not require a response please use @FEEDBACK.

In addition to the above, you may email tec-support@skotos.net if there is something that does not fall into these categories.